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As we enter the season of love this year, it often makes people think of their favorite love songs and what they mean to them. Here are a few that people love to hear in this coming season:

Linger-The CranberriesThis song was released in 1993 by this group on the album “Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” This song was also nominated for MTV Europe’s International viewers choice award. The lyrics of this songs reads: “But I’m in so deep, you know I’m such a fool for you, you’ve got me wrapped around your finger.” This song is about two people promising to stay true to each other, but one breaks the promise and is unfaithful to the other. While the true partner knows they deserve better, they are still hopelessly in love with the other.

My Wish- Rascal FlattsThe song’s lyrics read, “My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small, You never need to carry more than you can hold, And while you're out there getting where you're getting to, I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too.” This song was released in 2006 on the album “Me and My Gang.” This song is about the true love that exists in which he can’t have the person he loves, but he still wants her to have everything she wants in life and he hopes she finds exactly what she is looking for in her life because he knows she deserves it.

Can’t Help Falling in Love With You- ElvisElvis is a world renowned singer of many songs like “Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, and Burning Love,” But one of his most famous songs was “Can’t Help Falling in Love with You.” This song was released in 1961 in the movieBlue Hawaii. The lyrics read, “Like a river flows Surely to the sea Darling, so it goes Some things are meant to be Take my hand,Take my whole life, too For I can't help falling in love with you.” The words to this songs mean that just as nature will take its course as the river flows to the sea, I will inevitably fall in love with you because we are meant to be together.

Just the Way You Are- Billy JoelThis song was released in 1977 on the album “ The Stranger” in this songs he talks about how he will love this person he is singing to unconditionally; they do not have to change anything about them to make him happy, because all he wants is them. The words are, “I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble, We never could have come this far, I took the good times; I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.” This song is an inspiration to many people stating that no one has to change for someone, because the right person will love you just the way you are.

Ain’t No Cure for Love- Leonard CohenThis iconic song by Leonard Cohen was released in 1988 on the album “ I’m Your Man.” This song’s lyrics read, “I loved you for a long, long time, I know this love is real, It don't matter how it all went wrong, That don't change the way I feel.” These lyrics reach out to his lover saying that even though there were a lot of problems and nothing went right, he still loved her because feelings cannot change overnight.

There are many genres of songs such as Rock, Classical, Pop, etc. In all of these genres they have love songs built into different albums. Some might argue that these love songs are the best part of an album, or even the best part of the genre. These 5 songs are love songs that portray what a lot people might be feeling in this time of year. People love listening to them because of how truthful they are and how beautiful they sound.